How NASA imagined space colonies in the 1970s

During the 1970s NASA Ames has conducted a series of space colony summer studies. Colonies housing for about 10,000 people were designed and a number of really amazing artistic renderings of the concepts created.
The Library with the full size images is accessible here
Thumbnails of some of the images are shown below.

images courtesy NASA Ames [...]

Test your food before you eat it

Another piece of future-ware shown at the 2006 designboom / BUESSEL competition. David Tsai, the designer of the so called “Nutrinator” imagines its use in assessing and tracking food content to allows for more conscious and careful food consumption.…Are there peanuts in it? Is there MSG? How many calories is this meal? Nutrinator will [...]

Cutting Board with Integrated Scale

Cut and measure ingredients with the same tool = one dish less to clean and less time spent. Sounds good but so far its only a design prototype.
The cutting scale was designed by Jim Termeer and Jess Giffin. It won the 3rd price at the 2006 designboom / BUESSEL design competition. The two designers [...]

Philips Research: Cloths show emotions and T-shirts are glowing

In the last weeks Philips has shown impressive new technology and applications from their Research and Design centers.
Lumalive
integrates LEDs into normal wearable fabrics without compromising the softness or flexibility of the cloth.
Cloth that light up the emotions of the wearerThis application has been demonstrated with a series of cloths that express the emotions and [...]